Apple – What is iPad?
Original Airdate: May 12, 2010
…and, “What is Newton?” circa 1994.
This year, kickme444 and an assorted group of Redditors decided to put together one of the largest communal holiday gift exchanges on the internet for the Reddit community. This was no slap-dash operation, it led to the creation of redditgifts.com with over four thousand members participating in the exchange. You can read more about it [...]
First, please note that the laptop in this (intentionally absurd) ad is a MacBook Pro. Second, one of the characters actuall says “Microsoft, huh? So it’s pretty easy to use?” Really.
But that characterization may be unfair based on just one project. After all, they did release the Zune – a 30GB brown media player which [...]
I won’t begin to claim that Apple reinvented the music industry or make any sweeping claims, but it must be acknowledged the impact that this company has had on the the creation and consumption of music. With iTunes + iPod, Apple introduced a new and simple way for the younger generation to experience their music. [...]
This is officially, my favorite thing ever.
Context: Disillusioned David Archuleta fans as the winner of American Idol 7 was announced in May earlier this year. I think it was the screen-printed Archie-shirt that did him in.
SLYT video is behind the cut…
I’m saddened so few people got my joke earlier on Twitter, so much so that I feel it necessary to explain it because it involves two excellent dramas that everyone needs to have watched in their lifetime.
First, Matt Santos was a character on the West Wing played by Jimmy Smits. Santos was a Democratic senator [...]
In 2006, Activision acquired game peripheral manufacturer RedOctane and as a result, the rights to the ‘Guitar Hero’ game series. Whether or not this would be a productive move was to be seen. A few months later, Harmonix, the game developer of ‘Guitar Hero’, was acquired by MTV Networks. Neversoft took over development for ‘Guitar [...]
From South Park — S12E01 “Tonsil Trouble”…
Kyle: “What part of being infected with a deadly disease do you find funny?”
Cartman: “I don’t think it’s funny.”
Kyle: “Then stop saying you’re not just sure, you’re HIV-positive.This isn’t funny, AIDS isn’t funny, dying isn’t funny, so shut the **** up.”
Cartman: “Well, excuse me Kyle for trying to keep [...]